The ocean acidification narrative links it to CO2 and formation of “carbonic acid”. This is actually wrong. Alpha emitters from NORMs (volcanic tephras, coal ashes, phosphated fertilizers…) and TENORMs (radium in oil…) can add H+ ions (protons) to H2O atoms and form hydronium which can increase the acidity of the oceans. As usual with my inputs, ChatGPT admits localized effects, then suggests formation of hotspots and cumulative effects. Let’s take a look at key moments :

ChatGPT recommends more studies to quantify the effects more carefully.

Link to the full exchange. In my opinion we are at a moment of climate science similar to what economics were in the 1970s, when Keynesian effects were still considered to have an effect on the macro scale while microeconomics rejected these effects and leveraged already the effects of aggregated supply, costs and inflation. The LM curve of Hicks was just the first step, as was my understanding of the endothermy of photosynthesis and its key contribution to cooldown.